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The articulated peasant : household economies in the Andes / Enrique Mayer.
Van Pelt Library F3429.3.E2 M38 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mayer, Enrique, 1914-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Peru--Economic conditions.
- Indians of South America.
- Encomiendas (Latin America).
- History.
- Land use, Rural.
- Home economics.
- Peasants--Economic conditions.
- Peasants.
- Indians of South America--Land tenure.
- Peru.
- Economic conditions.
- Indians of South America--Land tenure--Peru.
- Indians of South America--Agriculture--Peru.
- Indians of South America--Agriculture.
- Peasants--Economic aspects--Peru.
- Home economics--Peru--History.
- Land use, Rural--Peru--History.
- Encomiendas (Latin America)--History.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Peru.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects.
- Peru--Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Based on Enrique Mayer's 30 years of research in Peru, this collection of new and revised essays presents in one accessible volume Mayer's most significant statements on Andean peasant economies from pre-colonial times to the present. As a result, The Articulated Peasant is noteworthy as a sustained examination of household economies through changing historical circumstances, while considering also the relationship of the environment to systems of land use and agricultural production, notably through "verticality models" of exchange between environmental zones. Though the volume stresses the Andean context, its relevancy is wider. It will resonate with people and organizations struggling with issues of development in Latin America or elsewhere where the units of production and consumption are largely household based.
- Contents:
- 1 The Household in Perspective 1
- House, Field, and Money 1
- The Household in the Andes 4
- The Household in the Community 35
- 2 Redistribution and Trade in Inca Society 47
- The Ethnic Group 49
- Economic Organization of the Inca State 52
- Evidence for Trade 54
- Trade in Luxuries 55
- Marketplaces in Cities and Towns 58
- Interecological Trade 60
- The Growth of Trading in Colonial Times 68
- 3 A Tribute to the Household: Domestic Economy and the Encomienda in Colonial Peru 75
- Saturday, February 14, 1562 78
- The Testimony 79
- Household Types 89
- The Burden of Tribute 94
- 4 The Rules of the Game in Andean Reciprocity 105
- How Reciprocity Works 105
- Forms of Andean Reciprocity 108
- Plowing and Harvesting 112
- Exploitation with Reciprocity 116
- Ceremonial Exchanges 118
- Reciprocity, Redistribution and Symbolic Capital 121
- Taxation 123
- Counting and Sharing 128
- The Limits of Reciprocity 131
- 5 Aspects of Barter 143
- Impurities 143
- Harvest Failure 145
- Strategies Intended to Overcome the Crisis 148
- Barter: A Generalized Exchange System 151
- Forms of Barter 153
- Why Barter? 157
- 6 Coca as Commodity: Local Use and Global Abuse 173
- Coca's Economic Functions 174
- Social Roles of Coca 177
- Access to Coca and Ethnic Domination 181
- Coca Substitution 184
- The New Context in the Late 1990s 186
- Aggressive Marketing 191
- Respect for Coca 195
- Undue Appropriation 197
- 7 Alguito Para Ganar ("A Little Something To Earn"): Profits and Losses in Peasant Economies (with Manuel Glave) 205
- Tulumayo and Paucartambo Valleys 210
- Real Losses (Total Balances) 212
- Monetary Balances and the Illusion of Profits 217
- Subsistence Production Costs Money 220
- Ethnography of Accounting 225
- The Question of Subsidies 230
- 8 Production Zones 239
- A Myth 239
- Organization of Production Zones 242
- The Dynamics in Production Zones 249
- The Limitations of Village-Based Verticality 261
- Individual Interest Groups in Villages 266
- 9 Land Tenure and Communal Control in Laraos 279
- The Community 281
- The Puna and the Grazing Estancias 282
- The Agricultural Zones 283
- Diachronic Variation 291
- Old Liberalism 299
- 10 Household Economies Under Neo-Liberalism 313
- Structural Readjustment 313
- Neo-Liberalism 316
- The Poor Household 318
- Property 323
- Neo-Liberal Approaches to Environmental Conservation 327.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-373) and index.
- ISBN:
- 081333716X
- OCLC:
- 46857517
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